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ne uarolma watchman vol xvh.--thikj series saiisbuby n c decembee 17 1885 the charlotte music house branch of ludden & bates southern music house r-ri'klcks the lowest terms the easiest order from this house and save time money and freight p5 g&jfct bickering pianos mason it ilamlin organs band instruments r.^k matliushek pianos packard orehemrau or an 11 l'i Â« Â«â€¢-, > i _". w'wppr ljj w t|b bent & co pianos bay state organs sheet music at 25 per cent wl j%i ..,---â– .-â– . â– isse r&^'i&l'.z ariou pianos on fifteen lays trial off former prices largest stock of music 15<Â»*>ks and musica merchandise in the state write for catalouge mention tlm pnpor mdress charlotte music house correspondence with teachers and tiiwa solicited l0;ly charlotte n c the great external remedy i r t 1 t r p r i x ' tobacco liniment f 1 1 r | rheumatism gout neu ralgia,sprains,bruises pains aches c underfill curative virtues o to , with other approved rubeliiejeiits making a marvelous compound tor the relief ol human sui feiing i relief guaranteed ../>-; i l its action is w0nderfcl._^e3 sutttt ui longer be humbugged with quack ills no longer tobao u is nature's ureal i itemedy ii ha been used in 1 crude waj trom i the days of sir waller kalfl','!i lo\vn,an<l has ivork ! t-j mauj i m in i"'i cure awl su e i wanj 1 valu [ ubio ufi in t ti l'obaeed liniment its virtues i ars hclentlilcally extracteil immblned with other r talu.iblo medical agents aud roulltlenl !\ offered in Â« ttas publlo nut 1.-1 i cure-all inn as 1 sate pow erful i bji oj'icuy external remedy appllcablo wher i fer tlirre is puln to be relieved iu urge bottles at only 25 cents for i sale by all dru^ists ask lor it and in ; ki*t upon having it don't be put off with â– worthless substitutes try it am you will 1 h thankful fur having had it brought to i your attention theo f kluttz & co wholesale druggists proprietors 30 1 salisbury v c come quick i delays a he dangerous j s mccubbins â– lias just returned from the northern cities with the largest & best selected k ol ' . u that w lias ever offered to i tin 1 public ; consisting of l>r_v goods gro | ceries hats roots and shoes sole leather a crockery and jurcns ware clothing pro 1 vision wood and willow wan tfce also a full line t fertilizers j of tlu 1 very best brands viz baker's well tried for wheat mekkymavsa i bone " walker's ground bone " na.tcrax guano just from orchilla m and supposed the only natural ciinmo on â€¢ ;" the market go and get testimonials and if you want .* to save money don't forget to call on him before buying cither goods or fertilizers 7 salisbury oct 1 1885 2o:tf debility ix adults is often | fc e;uirtcd by worms the change frotn-child to manhood is not sufficient to rid the k^jcni of this awful plague shriner'e â– mlian vermifuge will expel them and restore health aud a bright complcsiou for the watchman woodleaf items woodleaf is booming cotton com ing in eight to ten loads a day rice bro's iv bailey pay market price fur the staple and sell goods at satisfactory juices their business is growing every dav they have bought four to five thousand dollars worth of cotton this season we were glad to see lee s over man out at woodleaf on last satur day he was counsel in a horse trading trial which was continued until next friday the parties interested are t harrison and john johnson it will be a rich affair when it does come off and your correspondent expects to be there sorry mr clod knocker yet pines for the clover blossoms and green sward of his former residence while here lie has only woodleaves broom sedge and po-simons to till in his 893 thetic landscape with he will find us true mm and a generous neighborly people but he must cease his griev ing regret to announce the serious ill ness of mr wiley lyerly he has nreunionia and drs crump and kluttz who are the attending physicians say he is some better at this writing our heading club still meets regu larly at the unity school house the attendance is generally very good ii b baily is a new hand at raising tobacco he sold his crop in salisbury a tew days ago and was satisfied with the prices paid the causeway at gheen's bridge has bc.-n remodeled and repaired some say it is a good job and others say not future rains will be umpire in this debate woodleaf will be well supplied with mountain produce for the holidays several svagons are en route for this destination jeb for i lie wau'hman the no commissioners election 1 editor there is much talk and dissatisfaction about the action of the county commissioners in tilling the vacancy in their hoard themselves contrary to law as all hold first was there a vacancy if so whose duty was it to till that vacancy second if there was no vacancy why did the count v commissioners call out the mag istrates of the county to fill one the h'rsf is dearly answered by the second am the second is as clearly answered by the first viz there was a vacancy caused by the resignation of hon t j sunnier as chairman which they had accepted according to their published statements and they clearly understood ai the time that they had no right to till that vacancy as is shown by their calling the magistrates together to fill that vacancy being according to law the only parties that have any right by law to make a commissioners under any pretence whatever lint thev seem to have change their minds by last monday and tilled the vacancy them selves without the aid of the magis trates is the act usurpation of au thority or is not if it is then mr sumner is not legally a commissioner and will be liable in law for acting and no order or other business paper with his name to it as chairman is binding if their act is not usurpation then why call out the magistrates in such a dissagreable time lets hear we like the man splendid but not this action a j v the gambler must go by our regular contributor now we believe the time has come when the people are aroused against the professional gamblers and mean that this horribly pernicious and demorali zing practice shall be stamped out gambling in its worst and most revolt ing forms has prevailed and been con doned in the great cities in the united states during the years which have followed the civil war to an extent never paralleled perhaps in any other country or period the victims of this seductive and fatally destructive habit are more numerous ; the opportunities for its indulgence are more extensive and more publicly and conspicuously advertised certainly the leprous evil has nowhere else become so firmly rooted m the social fabric so complete ly entrenched against the efforts of law notwithstanding a multitude of ostensible statutory penalties and cor rectives and so potent and far-reaching in its influences no vice is so demor alizing no infatuation so desperate as that of gaming the drunkard has his sober moments his occasional lucid in tervals the grasp of the devil of drink is sometimes relaxed and the victim is allowed brief respite to gather strength and struggle for final emancipation but he who has sold himself to the devil of play is a slave whom torment and temptation rack without intermis sion he robs as ruthlessly as does the bandit or the burglar and yet demands immunity and even countenance he is an active and influential politician wielding a power ut the polls which compels the silence and often the aid of men who make laws and ordinances and too frequently insures him com iplete protection against the enforce j ment of any law intended to affect his trade he commands and directs mu i nicipal policy and patronage sits in city councils controls the police and man ages everything in his own special in terest but in dealing with a body of men so astute and determined it is nec essary to be as pertinacious and inexor able as they are themselves however much they may fleece each other they will combine for self-preservation and no assault upon the evil will be suc cessful which is not well organized and pressed persistently as well as vigorous ly it is a fight in which the people who are interested in the suppression of vice and crime must he enlisted against the criminals and the champions of ri^ht must be as perfectly disciplined and as well aligned as those who are struggling to maintain the wrong it is one of those social battles in which individuals must lend active aid â€” in which the public must come to the sup port of the authorities it is an axiom that no law can be properly enforced which is not in accord with the senti ment of the people for whom it is en acted we have had abundant exam ples of its truth and it is no less true that in the multitude of offenses which require correction the officers of the law will more energetically pursue those against which the people are most indignant and will pay least attention t those about which the people are in different it is not altogether certain that they are not right in this ; they an public servants and ought perhaps to follow closely the public instruc tions therefore if the public is re ally opposed to a particular practice denounced by the law ; if it sincerely desires that an offense however glaring shall he adequately punished and actu ally suppressed it must speak out it must even as we have said aid the au thorities in combating it in more than one state it has been made a fel ony and where this has been done it is said the evil has ceased in truth the penalties with which gambling is vis ited in north carolina and some other states while severe and if rigidly in flicted might be sufficient are of a na ture which renders them insufficient unless enforced with a rigor an energy and a constancy hardly to be expected fines without imprisonment have little terror for law-breakers who are levying heavy tribute upon large cainnnmities and are generally abundantly supplied with money imprisonment induces real consternation and the bare threat of the state prison might affect in many an offender the reformation which is more to be desired of course than his punishment but having once re solved that the vice shall be eradicated it is as certain that the better part of the community will root it out as that the day follows the night the gam blers will be defiant and will yield re luctantlyâ€”they may have the advant age in the preliminary skirmishes â€” but they will have to go all the same groldsboeo n c dec 12 a.r scientific notes the november meteoric showers the meteoric display of nov 27th was visible to the inhabitants of more than a quarter of the globe it was observed at teheran persia and was unusually brilliant in other parts of asia as well as in naples and london what was seen in our own locality during the evening was only the end of the main shower at the yale observ atory shortly after six o'clock forty four shooting stars were counted in twenty-four minutes many of them had considerable brilliancy and left trails of light behind them later in the evening the meteors were less nu merous but were estimated at 100 per minute they appeared to radiate from andromeda and as one observer can see but about one-sixth of those visible something near six hundred meteors could probably have been counted in a minute had the staff of observers been sufficient the display is due to the breaking up of biela's comet a dissolution first noticed in 1846 since then the work has progressed rapidly until the comet is now in millions of fragments in ages past the wanderer traveled among the fixed stars but its path eventually approached so near the sun that the in tense heat is supposed to have started the disintegration detached frag ments trailing after the comet formed its tail in 1840 it was observed to have become divided into two parts this destruction has continued until the comet is but a mass of fragments which follow the old orbit once in about six and two-third years the earth passes through this meteoric belt the fragments of the comet are made lumi nous by their rapid movement through the atmosphere and not un frequently tall to the earth the display lasts as a rule for two or three hours but va ries greatly in its brilliancy the last one of any importance was in js72 when between fifty and one hundred thousand stars could have been observ by a single party the display of 1879 was less striking the next contact with the ruins of the comet occurs in 1892 though the main shower lasts but a short time an occasional meteor may be seen almost up to christmas time â€” scientific american trial of the dynamite air gun three dynamite projectiles were thrown from lieut zalinski's pneu matic gun at fort lafayette new york harbor on the afternoon of nov 2s the projectiles were thrown a distance of about two miles and two of them one containing 50 and the other i 100 lb of nitro-glycerine exploded in a most satisfactory manner the other one sinking in the water without ex ploding previous to firing the dyna mite-loaded projectiles experiments were made with those loaded with sand to obtain the proper range and lieut zalinski explained the working of the gun to a large number of visitors who had been invited to witness the trial an illustrated description of the gun and its mode of operation appeared in the scientific american of oct 31 when the projectile containing 100 lb of dynamite struck the water it sent up a column of spray 150 feet into the air accompanying which was a cloud of yellow smoke and a report similar to that made by heavy ordnance the air pressure employed was 1,000 pounds to the square inch and this so admitted as to realize a large part of its expan sive force in the long gun gave the needed velocity to the projectile with out a sudden concussion at starting as would have been the case with gun powder all according to the anticipa tions of lieut zalinski the practical demonstration thus afforded that the most powerful of modern explosives can be thus handled even though the range is as vet comparatively short compared with that of the best modern guns marks another and most import ant step in the development or the means afforded for carrying on modern warfare â€” ib a new island in the pacific the united states consul in samoa has advised the merchants exchange of san francisco that a now island has been thrown up in the pacific ocean it is about forty miles off the tonga group bearing toward the fiji islands its appearance has a practical import ance since it is in the track of califor nia vessels the island is two miles long and 250 feet high â€” ib oldest habitations in america maj powell chief of the geological survey who has been about a mouth in the field has discovered in new mexico near california mountain what he pronounces to be the oldest human habitation upon the american conti nent the mountains in this vicinity are covered with hu^e beds of lava in which the prehistoric man and his com rades excavated square rooms which were lined with a species of plaster made from the lava and in these rooms were found various evidences of quite an advanced civilization among them a species of cloth made of woven hair and a lar^e number of pieces of pot tery in the sides of the rooms cup boards and shelves were excavated in one room sticking out of the bare face of the wall was a small branch of a tree when this was pulled out it was found that there was a hollow space behind the wall col j ii stephen son maj powell's assistant broke this with a pick and found a little conceal ed niche in which was a small carved figure resembling a man done up in a closely woven fabric which with the touch of the hand turned to dust it was blackened and crisp like the mum my cloths of egypt in all some sixty groups of these lava villages were found there being twenty houses in each group the evidences of civilization are similar but removed by their crud ity and want of skill a good deal from the articles found in the cliff houses santa fe nets mexico borax as an internal disinfectant in the union medicah dr cyon con firms the statement made by dumas in 1878 that borax is possessed of most valuable antiseptic powers independ ently of its value for the preservation of food it is a great preventive of in fections diseases and may be employed internally to ward off epidemics it may be taken for months or years with impunity and constitutes a valuable prophylactic dr cyon states that it is a remarkable fact that in all epi demics of cholera the workmen in bo racic acid factories have always escaped the disease the usual dose is five or six grammes 75 to 90 grains daily taken for an indefinite time thank the watchman again begs to thank some of the press of the state for very complimentary notices of it these evidences of appreciation are encourag ing the outcome in appearance of the salisbury watchman is remarkable the old established journal has put on a sparkling ermine that indicates vigorous manhood sufficient to con tinue it as a bright constellation in the newspaper world for another quarter of a century concord liej inter the salisbury watchman we gladly enter upon the list of our exchanges it is one of the soundest papers in the state â€” scotland neck democrat the democrat is just now doing poor walter page up in the most approved hard glove fashion it takes some of the brethren a long time to forget what page said of the north carolina editors his figure of speech was un fortunate f . . there is an old woman living in al pathe ga who was scalped by an indian during the seminole war forty year ago a desertion justified at a recent political gathering in : tuscumbia ala general cullen a | battle related the following touching | story in the course of his speech : du [ ring the winter l883-'64 it was my fortune to be president of one of the courts-martial of the army of north ern virginia one bleak december morning while the snow covered the gound and the wind howled around our camp i left my bivouac fire to at tend the session of court winding for miles along uncertain paths,i at length arrived at the court ground at round oak church day after day it had been our duty to try the soldiers of that army charged with violation of military laws but never had i on any previous occasion been greeted by sucn anxious specators as on that morning awaited the opening of court case after case was disposed of and at length the cose of the confederate states vs edward cooper was called â€” charge desertion a low murmur rose spontaneously from the battle-scarred spectators as the young artilleryman arose from the prisoners bench and in response to the question guilty or not guilty answered not guilty the judge advocate was proceeding to oj>en the prosecution when the court observing that the prisoner was unat tended by counsel interposed and in quired of the accused who is your counsel he replied u i have no coun sel supposing that it was his purpose to represent himself before the court the judge advocate was instructed to proceed every charge and specifica tion against the prisoner was sustain ed the prisoner was then told to ir troduce his witnesses he replied i have no witnesses astonished at the calmness with which he seemed to be submitting to what he regarded as in evitable fate i said to him have you no defence is it possible that you abandoned your comrades and deserted your colors in the presence of the ene my without any reason he replied there was a reason but it will not avail me before a military court i said perhaps you are mistaken you are charged with the highest crime known to military law and it is your duty to make known the causes that influenced your actions for the first time his manly form trembled his blue eyes swain in tears approaching the president of the court he presented a letter saying as he did so there general is what did it i opened the letter and in a moment my eyes filled with tears it was passed from one to another of the court until all had seen it and those stern warriors who had passed with stonewall jackson through a hundred battles wept like little chil dren as soon as i sufticientlv recovered my self-possession i read the letter as the defence of the prisoner it was in these words dear edward â€” i have always been proud of you since your connec tion with the confederate army i have been prouder of you than ever before i would not have you do anything wrong for the world but before god edward unless you come home we must die last night i was aroused by little eddie's crying i called and said w t hat is the matter eddie 1 and he said k oh mamma i'm so hungry and lucy edward your darling lucy she never complains but she grows thinner and thinner every day and before god edward unless you come home we must die your mary turning to the prisoner i asked what did you do when you received this letter he replied i made ap plication for a furlough and it was re jected a third time i made application and it was rejected and that night as i wandered backward in the camp thinking of my home the mild eye of lucy looking up to me and with the burning words of mary sinking in my brain i was no longer the confederate soldier but i was the father of lucy and the husband of mary and i would have passed those lines if every gun in the battery had been fired upon me mary ran out to meet me her angel arms embraced me and she whispered oh edward i am so glad you got your furlough she must have felt me shudder for she turned as pale as death and catching her breath at ev ery word she said have you come without your furlough oh edward go back go back let me and the children go down to the grave but oh for heaven's sake save the honor of our name and here i am gentlemen not brought here by military power but in olx?dience to the command of mary to abide the sentence of your court every officer of that court martial felt the force of the prisoner's words before them stood in beatific vision the eloquent pleader for a husband's and a father's wrongs but they had been trained by the great leader robert e lee to tread the path of duty though the lightning flasn scorched the ground beneath their feet and each in his turn pronounced the verdict â€” guilty fortunately for humanity fortunately for the confederacy the proceedings of the court were reviewed by the com manding general and upon the record was written headquarters a n v â€” the finding of the court approved the prisoner is pardoned and will re port to his company â€” r e lee gen eral shaky the zig-zag methods employed by mercenary men it is a notable fact that the people of atlanta and elsewere are beginning to be thoroughly convinced that worthless com pounds become shaky at all new innova tions while an honest preparation never fears opposition we do not propose to wipe out others as the field for operation is large and we accord to one and all the same privileges we enjoy we are not so far lost to business principles as to denounce any other remedy^as a fraud or imitation or as containing a vegetable poison the effects of which are horrible to comtem plate the alarm need not be gounded for there is ample room for all declining anti potash pine top slop water compounds if one bottle ot i b 15 is more valua ble in effects than half a dozen of any other preparation we won't get mad about it if ten bottles of b b b cures a case of blood poison which others could not cure at all it only proves that b b b is far the best medicine o,000 liottlctt of b b b have been sold to parties living inside the corporation of atlanta since it was started two years ago ! why this wonderful sale of a new reme dy in so short a time with so little adver tising it must be confessed that it is because b b b has proven itself to possess merit in the cure of blood skin and kidney dis eases hundreds of home certificates attest the fact of our claim that in atlanta and many other points b b b is on top ind will stay there many persons desire to know how the b b b acts on the sys tem by entering the circulation it modifies the vitiated blood globules increases the red corpuscles antagonizes all poison vi talizes and regenerates the flagging forces furnishes the pabulum for rich new blood eliminates all poison through the secre tions and increases the appetite while by ts wonderful action upon the pores of the skin the kidneys liver and glandular system all effete and impure matter is speedily conducted from the body leaving the blood pure fresh and healthy by its magical alterative powers b.b.b unloads the blood of all impurities un locks the liver arouses all secretions re stores nature to its normal condition un louds the troubled brain clears and beau tifies the compk-xion.cheers the despondent strengthens the feeble calms the disturbed uerves and iuduces quiet and peaceful slumbers it has been in use over twenty bve years as a private prescription in the south it is no far-fetched foreign-found or dream-discovered subterranean wonder but is a scientific and happy combination of reco^iii/.lihvegctablc blood poison agents effected after many years of constant use and experiment in i he treatment of thou sands of some of the most appalling cases of scrofulous syphilitic and cutaneous blood poisons ever known in the state resulting in complete and unparalleled cures of pro nounced incurable cases send to blood balm co atlanta ga for a copy of their book of wonders frer tilled with information about blood and skin diseases kidney complaints c sold by all druggist 5:1m kerosene oil by thf barrel at enniss drug store july 9 85 tf fresh turnip seed the earliest and best turnip seed for sale at enniss 1 . trusses of all kind at reduced prices at enniss fruit jars cheper than ever also rubber rings for fruit jars at enniss scare's preserving powdes for sale at enniss 1 . the best and chepest machine oil for threshers reapers and mowers at enniss prescriptions ! ! if you want your prescriptions put up cheaper than anvwhero else go to enniss drag store wy 9 85 tf enniss blackberry cordial for di&entery dianlkea flux c for sale at enniss drug store notice having qualified as administrator of paul holshouser dee'd i hereby give no tice to all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent to present them to me on or before the 12th day of novem ber 1886 chrisekbcrt holbhocher de<-17 adiu'r <â€¢â™¦' paul holshonser craige l clement att'\s c a kraus particular attemuoo paid tn fiwoim an<l tndno rauvp palntlog in oil wax or wuer-cpfcm Â« 111 make bids on ctmivhes putll buildings unj private residences wort guaranteed references tr desired i-ust alee address hardware when you wantj hardware at low figures c'nll on the undersigned u no 2 iranite row d a a.twell agent for the cardwellthresher salisbury n c june 5<tli â€” tf yadtin mineral spriopacafay palmersville Â» â– > oo > n c c ii m.vktin 1'kimu-ai graduate i v.ik forest mclt ana also at tne university of virginia ; s io$ir p.-r m'sstou i.i smontka ' ! the ouly si-uiiol in ibis station thai teackm the university of va method â€” vlgorou ex-i tensive thorough the cheapest s.-|i.m>i in tiu u s where these world-re no wed methods are uiugut good boanl iinh id per nn>iitli kly aililp'ss c ii muitin trln send your wool to the salisbury wgd mills this new factory is no\v in t>pctation inÂ»l facilities for nian afactaring woolen loods such s have nev er before been offered to our people tiro within the reach of tbe entire wool grow ing community we manufacture jeans cassimers linseys hlanket8 yarns uolls c soliciting a liberal patronage of our peo ple we arc respectfully salisbury woolkh mills |^" office at old express office may 28th 1885 32tf rxhopkins corner of kerr & lee streets with a full line of dry goods and groceries also keeps u firnl class lit warding house call and 8Â«e lim 28:ply if you want to fill your game bag and make big scores use remington ifles-^e shot guns all the latest improvements for descriptive circulars address lamberson furman&co h sole agents for e.remington&sons sporting arms and ammunition 281 & 283 broadway m new yorh w1stkrn office d h lamberson a co 73 state street chicago nb armory - - - ilion n y remington shovels scoops spades made iii the best manner by skilled wohbel remember that our cooos are always hliailk one piece of solid steel ; no holes or rivets to weaken the budk send for circular remington agriculturu co ii ion n v hew york ofllce ms chÂ«mber hirtxtu something new gtlamp cnimnet8^a that will uot break by jieat tur sale at enxis8 diamond dyes all colors yo wish at exniss dont forget to call f'>r feeds oi all kinds at knniss to the ladies call and see the flower pots at en5iss a million of worms gnawing lay and night is quite enough we tuink to thnw a child into spawns shriuer'g indian ver mifuge will destroy and expel them aoi fbto f lilt c 1 ''*'â€¢ no 9

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ne uarolma watchman vol xvh.--thikj series saiisbuby n c decembee 17 1885 the charlotte music house branch of ludden & bates southern music house r-ri'klcks the lowest terms the easiest order from this house and save time money and freight p5 g&jfct bickering pianos mason it ilamlin organs band instruments r.^k matliushek pianos packard orehemrau or an 11 l'i Â« Â«â€¢-, > i _". w'wppr ljj w t|b bent & co pianos bay state organs sheet music at 25 per cent wl j%i ..,---â– .-â– . â– isse r&^'i&l'.z ariou pianos on fifteen lays trial off former prices largest stock of music 15ks and musica merchandise in the state write for catalouge mention tlm pnpor mdress charlotte music house correspondence with teachers and tiiwa solicited l0;ly charlotte n c the great external remedy i r t 1 t r p r i x ' tobacco liniment f 1 1 r | rheumatism gout neu ralgia,sprains,bruises pains aches c underfill curative virtues o to , with other approved rubeliiejeiits making a marvelous compound tor the relief ol human sui feiing i relief guaranteed ../>-; i l its action is w0nderfcl._^e3 sutttt ui longer be humbugged with quack ills no longer tobao u is nature's ureal i itemedy ii ha been used in 1 crude waj trom i the days of sir waller kalfl','!i lo\vn,anr_v goods gro | ceries hats roots and shoes sole leather a crockery and jurcns ware clothing pro 1 vision wood and willow wan tfce also a full line t fertilizers j of tlu 1 very best brands viz baker's well tried for wheat mekkymavsa i bone " walker's ground bone " na.tcrax guano just from orchilla m and supposed the only natural ciinmo on â€¢ ;" the market go and get testimonials and if you want .* to save money don't forget to call on him before buying cither goods or fertilizers 7 salisbury oct 1 1885 2o:tf debility ix adults is often | fc e;uirtcd by worms the change frotn-child to manhood is not sufficient to rid the k^jcni of this awful plague shriner'e â– mlian vermifuge will expel them and restore health aud a bright complcsiou for the watchman woodleaf items woodleaf is booming cotton com ing in eight to ten loads a day rice bro's iv bailey pay market price fur the staple and sell goods at satisfactory juices their business is growing every dav they have bought four to five thousand dollars worth of cotton this season we were glad to see lee s over man out at woodleaf on last satur day he was counsel in a horse trading trial which was continued until next friday the parties interested are t harrison and john johnson it will be a rich affair when it does come off and your correspondent expects to be there sorry mr clod knocker yet pines for the clover blossoms and green sward of his former residence while here lie has only woodleaves broom sedge and po-simons to till in his 893 thetic landscape with he will find us true mm and a generous neighborly people but he must cease his griev ing regret to announce the serious ill ness of mr wiley lyerly he has nreunionia and drs crump and kluttz who are the attending physicians say he is some better at this writing our heading club still meets regu larly at the unity school house the attendance is generally very good ii b baily is a new hand at raising tobacco he sold his crop in salisbury a tew days ago and was satisfied with the prices paid the causeway at gheen's bridge has bc.-n remodeled and repaired some say it is a good job and others say not future rains will be umpire in this debate woodleaf will be well supplied with mountain produce for the holidays several svagons are en route for this destination jeb for i lie wau'hman the no commissioners election 1 editor there is much talk and dissatisfaction about the action of the county commissioners in tilling the vacancy in their hoard themselves contrary to law as all hold first was there a vacancy if so whose duty was it to till that vacancy second if there was no vacancy why did the count v commissioners call out the mag istrates of the county to fill one the h'rsf is dearly answered by the second am the second is as clearly answered by the first viz there was a vacancy caused by the resignation of hon t j sunnier as chairman which they had accepted according to their published statements and they clearly understood ai the time that they had no right to till that vacancy as is shown by their calling the magistrates together to fill that vacancy being according to law the only parties that have any right by law to make a commissioners under any pretence whatever lint thev seem to have change their minds by last monday and tilled the vacancy them selves without the aid of the magis trates is the act usurpation of au thority or is not if it is then mr sumner is not legally a commissioner and will be liable in law for acting and no order or other business paper with his name to it as chairman is binding if their act is not usurpation then why call out the magistrates in such a dissagreable time lets hear we like the man splendid but not this action a j v the gambler must go by our regular contributor now we believe the time has come when the people are aroused against the professional gamblers and mean that this horribly pernicious and demorali zing practice shall be stamped out gambling in its worst and most revolt ing forms has prevailed and been con doned in the great cities in the united states during the years which have followed the civil war to an extent never paralleled perhaps in any other country or period the victims of this seductive and fatally destructive habit are more numerous ; the opportunities for its indulgence are more extensive and more publicly and conspicuously advertised certainly the leprous evil has nowhere else become so firmly rooted m the social fabric so complete ly entrenched against the efforts of law notwithstanding a multitude of ostensible statutory penalties and cor rectives and so potent and far-reaching in its influences no vice is so demor alizing no infatuation so desperate as that of gaming the drunkard has his sober moments his occasional lucid in tervals the grasp of the devil of drink is sometimes relaxed and the victim is allowed brief respite to gather strength and struggle for final emancipation but he who has sold himself to the devil of play is a slave whom torment and temptation rack without intermis sion he robs as ruthlessly as does the bandit or the burglar and yet demands immunity and even countenance he is an active and influential politician wielding a power ut the polls which compels the silence and often the aid of men who make laws and ordinances and too frequently insures him com iplete protection against the enforce j ment of any law intended to affect his trade he commands and directs mu i nicipal policy and patronage sits in city councils controls the police and man ages everything in his own special in terest but in dealing with a body of men so astute and determined it is nec essary to be as pertinacious and inexor able as they are themselves however much they may fleece each other they will combine for self-preservation and no assault upon the evil will be suc cessful which is not well organized and pressed persistently as well as vigorous ly it is a fight in which the people who are interested in the suppression of vice and crime must he enlisted against the criminals and the champions of ri^ht must be as perfectly disciplined and as well aligned as those who are struggling to maintain the wrong it is one of those social battles in which individuals must lend active aid â€” in which the public must come to the sup port of the authorities it is an axiom that no law can be properly enforced which is not in accord with the senti ment of the people for whom it is en acted we have had abundant exam ples of its truth and it is no less true that in the multitude of offenses which require correction the officers of the law will more energetically pursue those against which the people are most indignant and will pay least attention t those about which the people are in different it is not altogether certain that they are not right in this ; they an public servants and ought perhaps to follow closely the public instruc tions therefore if the public is re ally opposed to a particular practice denounced by the law ; if it sincerely desires that an offense however glaring shall he adequately punished and actu ally suppressed it must speak out it must even as we have said aid the au thorities in combating it in more than one state it has been made a fel ony and where this has been done it is said the evil has ceased in truth the penalties with which gambling is vis ited in north carolina and some other states while severe and if rigidly in flicted might be sufficient are of a na ture which renders them insufficient unless enforced with a rigor an energy and a constancy hardly to be expected fines without imprisonment have little terror for law-breakers who are levying heavy tribute upon large cainnnmities and are generally abundantly supplied with money imprisonment induces real consternation and the bare threat of the state prison might affect in many an offender the reformation which is more to be desired of course than his punishment but having once re solved that the vice shall be eradicated it is as certain that the better part of the community will root it out as that the day follows the night the gam blers will be defiant and will yield re luctantlyâ€”they may have the advant age in the preliminary skirmishes â€” but they will have to go all the same groldsboeo n c dec 12 a.r scientific notes the november meteoric showers the meteoric display of nov 27th was visible to the inhabitants of more than a quarter of the globe it was observed at teheran persia and was unusually brilliant in other parts of asia as well as in naples and london what was seen in our own locality during the evening was only the end of the main shower at the yale observ atory shortly after six o'clock forty four shooting stars were counted in twenty-four minutes many of them had considerable brilliancy and left trails of light behind them later in the evening the meteors were less nu merous but were estimated at 100 per minute they appeared to radiate from andromeda and as one observer can see but about one-sixth of those visible something near six hundred meteors could probably have been counted in a minute had the staff of observers been sufficient the display is due to the breaking up of biela's comet a dissolution first noticed in 1846 since then the work has progressed rapidly until the comet is now in millions of fragments in ages past the wanderer traveled among the fixed stars but its path eventually approached so near the sun that the in tense heat is supposed to have started the disintegration detached frag ments trailing after the comet formed its tail in 1840 it was observed to have become divided into two parts this destruction has continued until the comet is but a mass of fragments which follow the old orbit once in about six and two-third years the earth passes through this meteoric belt the fragments of the comet are made lumi nous by their rapid movement through the atmosphere and not un frequently tall to the earth the display lasts as a rule for two or three hours but va ries greatly in its brilliancy the last one of any importance was in js72 when between fifty and one hundred thousand stars could have been observ by a single party the display of 1879 was less striking the next contact with the ruins of the comet occurs in 1892 though the main shower lasts but a short time an occasional meteor may be seen almost up to christmas time â€” scientific american trial of the dynamite air gun three dynamite projectiles were thrown from lieut zalinski's pneu matic gun at fort lafayette new york harbor on the afternoon of nov 2s the projectiles were thrown a distance of about two miles and two of them one containing 50 and the other i 100 lb of nitro-glycerine exploded in a most satisfactory manner the other one sinking in the water without ex ploding previous to firing the dyna mite-loaded projectiles experiments were made with those loaded with sand to obtain the proper range and lieut zalinski explained the working of the gun to a large number of visitors who had been invited to witness the trial an illustrated description of the gun and its mode of operation appeared in the scientific american of oct 31 when the projectile containing 100 lb of dynamite struck the water it sent up a column of spray 150 feet into the air accompanying which was a cloud of yellow smoke and a report similar to that made by heavy ordnance the air pressure employed was 1,000 pounds to the square inch and this so admitted as to realize a large part of its expan sive force in the long gun gave the needed velocity to the projectile with out a sudden concussion at starting as would have been the case with gun powder all according to the anticipa tions of lieut zalinski the practical demonstration thus afforded that the most powerful of modern explosives can be thus handled even though the range is as vet comparatively short compared with that of the best modern guns marks another and most import ant step in the development or the means afforded for carrying on modern warfare â€” ib a new island in the pacific the united states consul in samoa has advised the merchants exchange of san francisco that a now island has been thrown up in the pacific ocean it is about forty miles off the tonga group bearing toward the fiji islands its appearance has a practical import ance since it is in the track of califor nia vessels the island is two miles long and 250 feet high â€” ib oldest habitations in america maj powell chief of the geological survey who has been about a mouth in the field has discovered in new mexico near california mountain what he pronounces to be the oldest human habitation upon the american conti nent the mountains in this vicinity are covered with hu^e beds of lava in which the prehistoric man and his com rades excavated square rooms which were lined with a species of plaster made from the lava and in these rooms were found various evidences of quite an advanced civilization among them a species of cloth made of woven hair and a lar^e number of pieces of pot tery in the sides of the rooms cup boards and shelves were excavated in one room sticking out of the bare face of the wall was a small branch of a tree when this was pulled out it was found that there was a hollow space behind the wall col j ii stephen son maj powell's assistant broke this with a pick and found a little conceal ed niche in which was a small carved figure resembling a man done up in a closely woven fabric which with the touch of the hand turned to dust it was blackened and crisp like the mum my cloths of egypt in all some sixty groups of these lava villages were found there being twenty houses in each group the evidences of civilization are similar but removed by their crud ity and want of skill a good deal from the articles found in the cliff houses santa fe nets mexico borax as an internal disinfectant in the union medicah dr cyon con firms the statement made by dumas in 1878 that borax is possessed of most valuable antiseptic powers independ ently of its value for the preservation of food it is a great preventive of in fections diseases and may be employed internally to ward off epidemics it may be taken for months or years with impunity and constitutes a valuable prophylactic dr cyon states that it is a remarkable fact that in all epi demics of cholera the workmen in bo racic acid factories have always escaped the disease the usual dose is five or six grammes 75 to 90 grains daily taken for an indefinite time thank the watchman again begs to thank some of the press of the state for very complimentary notices of it these evidences of appreciation are encourag ing the outcome in appearance of the salisbury watchman is remarkable the old established journal has put on a sparkling ermine that indicates vigorous manhood sufficient to con tinue it as a bright constellation in the newspaper world for another quarter of a century concord liej inter the salisbury watchman we gladly enter upon the list of our exchanges it is one of the soundest papers in the state â€” scotland neck democrat the democrat is just now doing poor walter page up in the most approved hard glove fashion it takes some of the brethren a long time to forget what page said of the north carolina editors his figure of speech was un fortunate f . . there is an old woman living in al pathe ga who was scalped by an indian during the seminole war forty year ago a desertion justified at a recent political gathering in : tuscumbia ala general cullen a | battle related the following touching | story in the course of his speech : du [ ring the winter l883-'64 it was my fortune to be president of one of the courts-martial of the army of north ern virginia one bleak december morning while the snow covered the gound and the wind howled around our camp i left my bivouac fire to at tend the session of court winding for miles along uncertain paths,i at length arrived at the court ground at round oak church day after day it had been our duty to try the soldiers of that army charged with violation of military laws but never had i on any previous occasion been greeted by sucn anxious specators as on that morning awaited the opening of court case after case was disposed of and at length the cose of the confederate states vs edward cooper was called â€” charge desertion a low murmur rose spontaneously from the battle-scarred spectators as the young artilleryman arose from the prisoners bench and in response to the question guilty or not guilty answered not guilty the judge advocate was proceeding to oj>en the prosecution when the court observing that the prisoner was unat tended by counsel interposed and in quired of the accused who is your counsel he replied u i have no coun sel supposing that it was his purpose to represent himself before the court the judge advocate was instructed to proceed every charge and specifica tion against the prisoner was sustain ed the prisoner was then told to ir troduce his witnesses he replied i have no witnesses astonished at the calmness with which he seemed to be submitting to what he regarded as in evitable fate i said to him have you no defence is it possible that you abandoned your comrades and deserted your colors in the presence of the ene my without any reason he replied there was a reason but it will not avail me before a military court i said perhaps you are mistaken you are charged with the highest crime known to military law and it is your duty to make known the causes that influenced your actions for the first time his manly form trembled his blue eyes swain in tears approaching the president of the court he presented a letter saying as he did so there general is what did it i opened the letter and in a moment my eyes filled with tears it was passed from one to another of the court until all had seen it and those stern warriors who had passed with stonewall jackson through a hundred battles wept like little chil dren as soon as i sufticientlv recovered my self-possession i read the letter as the defence of the prisoner it was in these words dear edward â€” i have always been proud of you since your connec tion with the confederate army i have been prouder of you than ever before i would not have you do anything wrong for the world but before god edward unless you come home we must die last night i was aroused by little eddie's crying i called and said w t hat is the matter eddie 1 and he said k oh mamma i'm so hungry and lucy edward your darling lucy she never complains but she grows thinner and thinner every day and before god edward unless you come home we must die your mary turning to the prisoner i asked what did you do when you received this letter he replied i made ap plication for a furlough and it was re jected a third time i made application and it was rejected and that night as i wandered backward in the camp thinking of my home the mild eye of lucy looking up to me and with the burning words of mary sinking in my brain i was no longer the confederate soldier but i was the father of lucy and the husband of mary and i would have passed those lines if every gun in the battery had been fired upon me mary ran out to meet me her angel arms embraced me and she whispered oh edward i am so glad you got your furlough she must have felt me shudder for she turned as pale as death and catching her breath at ev ery word she said have you come without your furlough oh edward go back go back let me and the children go down to the grave but oh for heaven's sake save the honor of our name and here i am gentlemen not brought here by military power but in olx?dience to the command of mary to abide the sentence of your court every officer of that court martial felt the force of the prisoner's words before them stood in beatific vision the eloquent pleader for a husband's and a father's wrongs but they had been trained by the great leader robert e lee to tread the path of duty though the lightning flasn scorched the ground beneath their feet and each in his turn pronounced the verdict â€” guilty fortunately for humanity fortunately for the confederacy the proceedings of the court were reviewed by the com manding general and upon the record was written headquarters a n v â€” the finding of the court approved the prisoner is pardoned and will re port to his company â€” r e lee gen eral shaky the zig-zag methods employed by mercenary men it is a notable fact that the people of atlanta and elsewere are beginning to be thoroughly convinced that worthless com pounds become shaky at all new innova tions while an honest preparation never fears opposition we do not propose to wipe out others as the field for operation is large and we accord to one and all the same privileges we enjoy we are not so far lost to business principles as to denounce any other remedy^as a fraud or imitation or as containing a vegetable poison the effects of which are horrible to comtem plate the alarm need not be gounded for there is ample room for all declining anti potash pine top slop water compounds if one bottle ot i b 15 is more valua ble in effects than half a dozen of any other preparation we won't get mad about it if ten bottles of b b b cures a case of blood poison which others could not cure at all it only proves that b b b is far the best medicine o,000 liottlctt of b b b have been sold to parties living inside the corporation of atlanta since it was started two years ago ! why this wonderful sale of a new reme dy in so short a time with so little adver tising it must be confessed that it is because b b b has proven itself to possess merit in the cure of blood skin and kidney dis eases hundreds of home certificates attest the fact of our claim that in atlanta and many other points b b b is on top ind will stay there many persons desire to know how the b b b acts on the sys tem by entering the circulation it modifies the vitiated blood globules increases the red corpuscles antagonizes all poison vi talizes and regenerates the flagging forces furnishes the pabulum for rich new blood eliminates all poison through the secre tions and increases the appetite while by ts wonderful action upon the pores of the skin the kidneys liver and glandular system all effete and impure matter is speedily conducted from the body leaving the blood pure fresh and healthy by its magical alterative powers b.b.b unloads the blood of all impurities un locks the liver arouses all secretions re stores nature to its normal condition un louds the troubled brain clears and beau tifies the compk-xion.cheers the despondent strengthens the feeble calms the disturbed uerves and iuduces quiet and peaceful slumbers it has been in use over twenty bve years as a private prescription in the south it is no far-fetched foreign-found or dream-discovered subterranean wonder but is a scientific and happy combination of reco^iii/.lihvegctablc blood poison agents effected after many years of constant use and experiment in i he treatment of thou sands of some of the most appalling cases of scrofulous syphilitic and cutaneous blood poisons ever known in the state resulting in complete and unparalleled cures of pro nounced incurable cases send to blood balm co atlanta ga for a copy of their book of wonders frer tilled with information about blood and skin diseases kidney complaints c sold by all druggist 5:1m kerosene oil by thf barrel at enniss drug store july 9 85 tf fresh turnip seed the earliest and best turnip seed for sale at enniss 1 . trusses of all kind at reduced prices at enniss fruit jars cheper than ever also rubber rings for fruit jars at enniss scare's preserving powdes for sale at enniss 1 . the best and chepest machine oil for threshers reapers and mowers at enniss prescriptions ! ! if you want your prescriptions put up cheaper than anvwhero else go to enniss drag store wy 9 85 tf enniss blackberry cordial for di&entery dianlkea flux c for sale at enniss drug store notice having qualified as administrator of paul holshouser dee'd i hereby give no tice to all persons having claims against the estate of said decedent to present them to me on or before the 12th day of novem ber 1886 chrisekbcrt holbhocher de oo > n c c ii m.vktin 1'kimu-ai graduate i v.ik forest mclt ana also at tne university of virginia ; s io$ir p.-r m'sstou i.i smontka ' ! the ouly si-uiiol in ibis station thai teackm the university of va method â€” vlgorou ex-i tensive thorough the cheapest s.-|i.m>i in tiu u s where these world-re no wed methods are uiugut good boanl iinh id per nn>iitli kly aililp'ss c ii muitin trln send your wool to the salisbury wgd mills this new factory is no\v in t>pctation inÂ»l facilities for nian afactaring woolen loods such s have nev er before been offered to our people tiro within the reach of tbe entire wool grow ing community we manufacture jeans cassimers linseys hlanket8 yarns uolls c soliciting a liberal patronage of our peo ple we arc respectfully salisbury woolkh mills |^" office at old express office may 28th 1885 32tf rxhopkins corner of kerr & lee streets with a full line of dry goods and groceries also keeps u firnl class lit warding house call and 8Â«e lim 28:ply if you want to fill your game bag and make big scores use remington ifles-^e shot guns all the latest improvements for descriptive circulars address lamberson furman&co h sole agents for e.remington&sons sporting arms and ammunition 281 & 283 broadway m new yorh w1stkrn office d h lamberson a co 73 state street chicago nb armory - - - ilion n y remington shovels scoops spades made iii the best manner by skilled wohbel remember that our cooos are always hliailk one piece of solid steel ; no holes or rivets to weaken the budk send for circular remington agriculturu co ii ion n v hew york ofllce ms chÂ«mber hirtxtu something new gtlamp cnimnet8^a that will uot break by jieat tur sale at enxis8 diamond dyes all colors yo wish at exniss dont forget to call f'>r feeds oi all kinds at knniss to the ladies call and see the flower pots at en5iss a million of worms gnawing lay and night is quite enough we tuink to thnw a child into spawns shriuer'g indian ver mifuge will destroy and expel them aoi fbto f lilt c 1 ''*'â€¢ no 9